USF Oral History Projects

This digital oral history collection traces the history of the University of South Florida through the thoughts and reminiscences of current and former students, faculty, administrators, and community friends about their experiences at USF. In addition to random interviews, the collection also includes interviews from the USF 25th and 50th anniversary oral history projects.

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In 1967, The University of South Florida added a five year degree known as Communicology. The communicology program was initially housed in a run-down two-story apartment building on Fletcher Avenue endearingly known as “Mildew Manor” and consisted of roughly thirty students interested in speech pathology or audiology. Over the last 50 years, the Department of Communicology has experienced immense changes and growth, becoming what we know today as the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD). CSD is currently housed in a state-of-the art four-story building on campus, offers undergraduate education in language, speech, and hearing science, sign-language interpreting, and Deaf studies, offers graduate education in audiology, communication sciences and disorders, and speech-language pathology, and boasts nationally esteemed faculty. In honor of CSD’s 50th anniversary, graduate student Stephanie de Silva, with the help of undergraduate students Mary Aragona and Taylor BabThe USF Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 50th Anniversary Oral History Program

The Office of the President and the College of Arts and Sciences instituted the Silver Anniversary Project in 1985 to commemorate 25 years of university history. USF history professor Nancy A. Hewitt conducted the interviews, except where noted otherwise, with members of the USF faculty and staff.
USF 25th (1985) Anniversary Oral History Project

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the University, Oral History Program Director Mark I. Greenberg led an effort to record the thoughts of over 200 current and former students, faculty, administrators, and community friends.
USF 50th (2006) Anniversary Oral History Project